| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction Back to Texa -- PART ONE: GETTING SETTLED -- 1. Royal Flushes, Seven No-Trumps and a Lazy Father -- 2. They Came with Candlesticks from Russia -- 3. Letters from Little Becky -- 4. On Forest Avenue They Loved Each Other but Not Grandpa -- 5. One Sister Surprises Everyone by Going Away -- 6. Another Sister Just Gets a Surprise -- 7. Under Pearl's Bed -- 8. Marriage to a Jewish Football Player -- 9. No Consolation -- 10. Heavy on the Gravy, but Hide the Pots and Pans -- Photographs -- PART TWO: CLOSER TO HOME -- 11. Henry-As Much Salt As You Want, but No Pepper -- 12. Little Becky and Us -- 13. Uncle Morris, a Gambler in the Bedroom -- 14. ... and Dorothy, the Best Draw of All -- 15. Tom-You're from Texas and You're Not Jewish? -- 16. Florence-A Near and Distant Loss -- 17. Jerome-One of Two Quiet Adventurers -- Photographs -- PART THREE: AROUND TOWN -- 18. A New Neighborhood -- 19. Edging Up on the Teens -- 20. Early Scar -- 21. Scotties Do Not Build Snowmen in Living Rooms. -- 22. A Lady of the Night and Others -- Photographs -- PART FOUR: AUTHOR! AUTHOR! -- 23. Some Stay Home, I Go Away -- 24. Texas to Past Tense -- 25. I'll Take Manhattan -- Photographs -- PART FIVE: PICK UP STICKS -- 26. Ben & Sara, Bye and Bye -- 27. After Normandy -- Quietly Angry -- 28. They've Made Texas a Better Place to Live -- Photographs -- EPILOGUE -- 29. Is There a Happy Ending? |
| Summary |
Stanley Ely says that when the fiftieth or so person confronted him with a skeptical, "You mean you're Jewish, and you're from Texas?" he decided to do more than smile and say, "Yes." The result is this funny, caustic and nostalgic tale in the tradition of popular regionally and ethnically focused memoirs. -- Provided by publisher |
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Ely combines the stories of his grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings and friends, and an abundance of family photos as he shares his family story from the immigration of his parents (as young children) and grandparents to Galveston from Russia and Romania until today, as Ely faces his own senior years living in New York. The story of Ely's family and their friends reflects the impressive growth of Dallas and its Jewish population in the first half of the twentieth century. As he narrates the building of new lives in Texas, Ely also portrays the integration of a minority segment of Jewish immigrants in America outside the great cities of the North. Though the book is not a typical "coming out" story, the reader also learns of Ely's gradual and sometimes reluctant acceptance of himself as a gay man. -- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Ely, Stanley E
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| SUBJECT |
Ely, Stanley E. fast |
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Jews -- Texas -- Dallas -- Biography
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Gay men -- Texas -- Dallas -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Gay men
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Jews
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Dallas (Tex.) -- Biography
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New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
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New York (State) -- New York
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Texas -- Dallas
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
97052961 |
| ISBN |
0585054541 |
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9780585054544 |
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